Art, Architecture & Photography

NOMSZ, Johannes. [A choice collection of 6 original plays written by Johannes Nomsz and 10 plays of French playwrights - Racine, Corneille, Voltaire and others - together with other texts highly interesting for the history of the Amsterdam stage, and Nomszs historical work on the life of Mohammed in 2 volumes].
Amsterdam, Izaak Duim, Johannes Smit, David Klippink, widow of David Klippink, Hendrik Gartman, Johannes Smit, heirs of David Klippink, 1764-1780. 16 plays, 3 essays and 1 biography bound in 11 volumes. 8vo. With two portraits of Nomsz by Reinier Vinkeles (vol. I) and J. Houbraken (vol. IX), a portrait of Mohammed by J. Houbraken (vol. I) and 14 frontispieces by the best engravers of the time: Jan Punt, Reinier Vinkeles, Simon Fokke, P. Tanjé and Th. Koning. Uniform contemporary vellum with a blind-tooled centrepiece and cornerpieces on each board, manuscript titles on spines. [8], 76; [8], 64; [8], 56; 14; 62; [8], 54; 12, [74]; [4], 54; [12], 74; [6], 71; [8], 71; [6], 58; [12], 78; [6], 112; [8], 82, [2]; 35; [4], 88, [2]; 43; [10], 113; [10], 67; [12], 73, [2]; XXVI, 182; [4], 190 pp. Full description

[NORTHWEST PASSAGE - PAINTING]. [The ships Erebus and Terror in the Arctic].
[England?, ca. 1850?]. Oil painting on canvas (65.5 x 91 cm), showing 2 ships in a rough sea amid dangerous rocks and ice. Later mounted on another canvas and stretched over a wooden frame, with a handwritten note about the painting pasted on the back. Full description

NOVERRE, Jean Georges. Lettres sur la danse, et sur les ballets.
Stuttgart (and sold in Lyon), Aimé Delaroche, 1760. Small 8vo. With a small vignette built up from typographical ornaments on the title page, an engraved armorial headpiece at the start of the dedication, an decorated initial and a headpiece both built up from typographical ornaments, and some woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary marbled calf. [1], [1 blank], [2], 484 pp. Full description

[NUMISMATICS - BANK NOTES]. Report of the committee of the Society of Arts, &c. together with the approved communications and evidence upon the same relative to the mode of preventing the forgery of bank notes.
London, Printed by order of the Society (colophon: printed by T.C. Hansard), 1819. 8vo. With 6 engraved plates (5 full-page, 1 folding). Contemporary gold-tooled half calf. [IV], 59, [1 blank], 57-72 [= 76] pp. Full description

OGAWA Kazamusa. Famous castles & temples in Japan.
Tokio, [Kazamusa Ogawa?], (colophon in Japanese: Meiji 28 = 1895). Oblong (27 x 36.5 cm). With 35 hand-coloured collotypes, with captions. Slightly later black, gold-tooled morocco, with initials C.R. at the foot of the spine. 36 ll. Full description

[OLIVIER, Abbé Jean]. D'ongelukkige Napolitaan, of zeldzaam levensbedrijf van Rozelli. Behelzende een historisch verhaal van zijne geboorte, Turkze slaverny, klooster leven, zitten in de inquisitie, en wat figuren hy verder in Italien, Vrankrijk, en Holland gemaakt heeft. Uit het Frans vertaald.
Utrecht, Jakob van Poolsum, 1716. 3 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a full-page engraved frontispiece, a letterpress title in red and black, 16 full-page engraved plates, several woodcut head- and tailpieces, and woodcut initials. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label on the spine with the text "Leven van Rozelli" lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. VI, 484, 36 pp. Full description

ONGANIA, Ferdinando (ed.). Calli e canali e isole della laguna [frontispiece: "Calli et canali in Venezia"].
Venice, Tipografia Emiliana, 1894-1895. Imperial folio (ca. 55 x 37 cm). With a lithographed frontispiece showing a gondola in a Venice canal and 100 colletypes of the Venice canals, streets and buildings, mounted on guards and covered with flyleaves, index printed in red and black. Original publishers half brown sheepskin, beige cloth sides with blind-tooled frame on the front and back board and with a centrepiece with a boat in the lagoon of Venice and the gold-stamped title and author's name on the front board. [6] including the frontispiece, plus 100 collotypes. Full description

[ORANGISTS]. Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas, vanden 22. January 1685. Getekent Hugo de Groot.
The Hague, Gidion Backer, 1685. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette and a woodcut intial. Disbound. 28 pp. Full description

[ORANGISTS]. Aenmerkinge op de Missive van Parnas, vanden 22. January 1685. Getekent Hugo de Groot.
The Hague, Gideon Backer, 1685. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette and a woodcut intial. Disbound. 28 pp. Full description

OS, Georgius Jacobus Johannes. [Flowers and fruits on a marble plinth].
[Paris or Holland], [ca. 1815-1825]. Four watercolour drawings on paper, three signed "G.J.J Van Os", edged with a thin black border. [4] ll. Full description